![]() ![]() In other words, looking at processing times for form I-130 is not really relevant to family adjustment applicants who concurrent file. In 'concurrent filings' (I-485 and I-130 together, generally along with employment authorization and advance parole), form I-130 is generally approved at the same time as form I-485- and that is at the time of the interview at the USCIS local field office. The are relevant -> for applicants going through adjustment of status, the I-485 is the form that drives the timeline because it is the one that, when approved, leads to the actual Green Card being produced.They are the most useful numbers published by USCIS because they are relevant, and fairly precise: How accurate are USCIS processing times for family I-485s? So, according to our analysis, this is, for each USCIS field office, the minimum amount of time that is going to elapse between the moment your case is complete with NBC, and you actually get to go to the interview: The pace at which these I-485 will be processed in the next few months is the same as the one we saw during the last quarter of available data.All family I-485 interviews ahead of you at your field office will need to be adjudicated.What we are essentially saying is that, when the NBC is making your case available to the USCIS field office for interview: In order to do that, we simply take the number of 'pending' family I-485 application at the end of the period, and divide it by the number of I-485 processed during the period ('approved' + 'denied'). The National Benefit Center (NBC) has determined that the I-485 case is 'Ready to be Scheduled for an Interview'.This data is trying to capture the minimum of time that is going to elapse between: Immigration Planner uses the latest data published by USCIS to compute the value of the 'backlog' of each office. How long to family adjustment interview if my “Case is Ready to be Scheduled for an Interview”?Īgain, this is going to depend on the USCIS Local Field Office where the interview is going to take place. Then, Immigration Planner is providing estimates on the ' low' ('50%') and ' high' ('93%') based on past data, but these numbers are not official numbers from USCIS.The ' 80%' corresponds to the latest measure of processing times published by USCIS (a decision was made on 80% of family I-485s during the stated number of months).USCIS looks at the adjudicated cases during the last period, and how much time it took from when the agency received the I-485 until a decision was made. The numbers provided by USCIS for I-485s rely on a ' processing time methodology' that provides more value to applicants than the 'cycle methodology' used for I-130s. ![]() What are the latest family I-485 processing times per field office?Īfter pre-processing by the National Benefit Center (NBC), USCIS assigns family I-485s to a ‘local field office’ where the interview will take place based on the physical address of the applicant in the United States (if you are not sure about your USCIS field office, check your receipt notice, or use USCIS tool here). In the sample we took, the case inquiry date was further out than it used to, and is probably going to be much more ‘stable’ (to avoid situation when you were allowed to inquire one period, but not the next one because of the ‘swings’ in numbers. In the ‘do not bother us’ chapter, USCIS is no longer publishing the 93% number, which also acted as the basis for the ‘case inquiry date’, but you can still infer it from the message they display once a receipt date has been entered.This is very clear in the first set of numbers that Immigration Planner looked at –> between May and September 2022, the average of the ‘80%’ for all Field Offices was virtually unchanged (16.8 months instead of 16.4 months) Again, it is likely that USCIS no longer wanted to explain ‘swings’ in ‘processing times’ from one period to the next USCIS is saying that it is using an average of the last 6 months, instead of the ‘last period’ which was 6 to 8 weeks. Today, when you look at the number of months for your Field Office, do not expect it to move much in the future.They are therefore managing expectations differently, more clearly communicating to applicant that they are going to have to be patient The ‘80%’ number is higher than the ‘50%’ that applicants focused on.Through this change, USCIS is essentially telling applicants: ‘be prepared to wait, and in the meantime, do not bother us’: Since May 2022, USCIS is providing a single ‘80%’ number for its I-485 processing times, instead of providing a ‘50%’ and ‘93%’ number. ![]() What are the latest changes USCIS made to I-485 processing times?
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